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Psychology of Education 2 2017/2018

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Objectives

.Students are expected to grasp the potentialities and potentialities of this scientific area, that is, to know what the object of study, what models are associated with it, the research and application themes or intervention, as well as the contexts and resources of professional psychologists of education. Objective will also be for students to be able to distinguish this area from others that are very close to or included in it (School Psychology and Instructional Psychology).

The specific objectives and competences to be acquired are: to delimit the professional dimension of the Educational Psychologist; to discuss the instrumentality of the contents conveyed in the praxis of the educational psychologist; to equate the role (s) of the Educational Psychologist in the various educational contexts; to develop observation, research and intervention capacities in the field of Educational Psychology.

Recommended Prerequisites

Have successfully completed the tasks of the discipline of Educational Psychology 1.Recognize the theoretical principles of psychological intervention in educational contexts.

Teaching Metodology

In this curricular unit an active teaching methodology will be implemented with the use of teaching and learning strategies that will involve the students. Specifically, lectures and reading exploration activities will be held.As resources will be used the frame, the computer and the video projector. UPT's digital databases as well as the UPT elearning platform will also be indispensable working tools.

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the curricular unit's objectives

The contents will be approached with the aim of promoting knowledge, understanding, application and analysis skills.

Demonstration of the teaching methodologies coherence with the curricular unit's objectives

The profitability of interrogative methodologies, with the use of debates, arguments and dialogues, and active methodologies, in the form of group work, presentation and discussion of the work with the use of interrogation, debate and storm of ideas will validate the acquisition of the proposed objectives .